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• W233257913 abstract "AFGHANISTAN Unending, Afghanistan: 1979 to the Present, by Gilles Dorronsoro. Translated from French by John King. New York, NY: Columbia University Press in association with the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Nationales, Paris, 2005. xxiii + 356 pages. Maps. Chron. Gloss. Sel. bibl. to p. 362. Index to p. 370. $29.50. Unending is an excellent and very thorough study of the formation and evolution of social, organizational, economic, and religious segments of Afghan society since 1979. It is grounded in Gilles Dorronsoro's extensive field research in many regions of Afghanistan and provides particularly balanced and objective discussions of topics, such as Taliban policies, that are rarely tackled objectively elsewhere. Its main weakness is an underspecified theoretical perspective. The introduction briefly discusses a number of perspectives on Afghan conflicts (systemic, ethnic, tribal and even organizational), poses some broad questions about social and political orders, and provides the author's hypotheses without much attention to alternative ones. This, however, is not a book about rigorous and sustained hypothesis-testing, even if we find scattered instances in the text where the author engages in such an exercise. This is regrettable because the socio-economic thread that unifies the narrative, if articulated more trenchantly, would have been a worthy competitor for Barnett Rubin's excellent political economy explanation of the same events and of an organizational perspective I am developing in a forthcoming book.1 The introduction also contains the only reference to the Revolution in the title, a puzzling choice of words because the author frequently notes in the text that victors in different Afghan conflicts rarely managed to overhaul the social order according to their wishes. True, advocates of new social orders abound in Afghan history, but the state was most often weak and new elites frequently failed to transform society beyond the larger towns. Perhaps Dorronsoro is referring to an ultimate, inevitable revolution that emulates the classic examples, but it is safer to speak of mere conflict until one takes place in Afghanistan. The first two chapters of the book (Part One) provide the necessary historical, sociological, and political background to the post-1979 conflicts. Parts Two and Three are the most valuable sections of the book. They provide a highly detailed discussion of the dynamics and organization of conflict in Afghanistan between the Soviet invasion and the rise of the Taliban. The author's field research gives him a strong comparative advantage for narrating, analyzing, and interpreting developments. Most writers on post-1979 Afghan conflicts have witnessed events in a limited geographic area at best and supplement their knowledge with evidence gathered by others who visited other regions. …" @default.
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